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Direct linkBangert-Drowns, Robert L.; Hurley, Marlene M.; Wilkinson, Barbara – Review of Educational Research, 2004
Since the early 1970s, many educators have touted writing as a means of enhancing learning. Several reasons have been suggested for this purported enhancement: that writing is a form of learning, that writing approximates human speech, that writing supports learning strategies. Alternatively, some researchers have cautioned that the educative…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Metacognition
